
Go and collect a long piece of lime wood about the width of your fist at the base with as little knotts as possible.
I wouldnt cut down a single lime tree. This wood was taken from a bunch of shoots around where there were large fallen lime trees. Cut theought the base of the wood as cleanly as possible at a diagonal. (cutting at a slant will stop rain water etc resting on top of the cut and will reduce the chances of the tree catching disesaes etc. Its a good idea to do this when cutting any wood from a tree.)
cut throught the bark in a line down the lenght of the wood.

Start to peel back the bark. It will ploberbly be very hard to do with just your hands becuase the bark is so strong. Make a tool called a 'Spud' to help you (a chisel shaped piece of wood)



When the bark is totally removed from the wood put it in a slow moving stream for 2 weeks or more. Make sure it is totally submerged. i used sticks to hold it beneith the water. While you are waiting make a canoe

After 2 weeks of the bark being ion the stream the layers of bark may have seperated enough. The bark will stink too! It will proberbly be covered in slime and various creatures may have made their home in your bark. Simply rub off the slime with your hands, some of you proberbly wont find this a pleasent job buy just get on with it!

Seperate the layers of bark out and hang up to dry. You can scrap the outer bark, it wont be good for much. The inner fabers are the strongest! stronger than nettle fibers i think!
This is one layer of bark and is so thin you can practically see through it. It reminds me of greasy chip shop paper

When the fibers dry they become nice and soft ad are ideal for cordage making. Because the fibers are long you dont need to introduce new fibers as often when making cordage so the final cord will be stronger!

Happy cordage making!
Article by Jonathan Ridgeon